After taking a firearms training course, paying a host of fees, and submitting fingerprints for a background check that he ultimately passed, Michael Thomas was puzzled when he was notified earlier this year that a special review board had denied his application for a concealed carry license.
Thomas, a former Air Force reservist who said he routinely carried a gun during military service and has never had a run-in with the law, is one of more than 800 people who have been denied licenses by the board, which meets behind closed doors and keeps its records and reasoning secret, even from applicants who are denied.
Figuring that his was a case of mistaken identity, Thomas wrote to the Illinois State Police to request a review of the decision.
“I have never been arrested or convicted of any offense, either misdemeanor or felony, in the state of Illinois or any other state,” Thomas said in his letter. “I have no criminal record of any type.”
But the state police, in a letter responding to his appeal request, didn’t say why he was denied, and told him that the board’s decisions couldn’t be reviewed and that he would have to petition a court in order to appeal.
So Thomas joined 193 other Illinoisans who have filed lawsuits against the state police to try and peel back the secrecy of the decision-making process.
via Flood of lawsuits over concealed carry denials – Chicago Tribune.
I have the feeling that Chicago Pols have figured that the Concealed Weapons Permit system in Illinois is May Issue after all.
Then again that have been having such a crappy time with the courts, hopefully it will backfire and make the system even easier.
someone will find him. you can’t post anything on the internet without someone somewhere being able to find out it was you, and when you make the *koff* intelligent *koff* choice to include your face and your child in the picture, well it makes it all that much easier really. there is not enough tar or feathers in the whole state of texas for that guy.
I don’t know how the kitten this got under this topic, but it was meant for the “target dad” one.
It would be interesting to find out what percentage of people arbitrarily denied are minorities. I really think that a lot of leftists are scared to death of minorities owning and legally carrying firearms.
The whole system here is screwed up. Yes, we got concealed carry on the books, but in the Chicagoland bubble, it’s practically worthless.
The training is a pain. I did the FL training and that’s not bat. I can sit through 4 hours of being told where I can and can’t carry and what is a legal shoot and what isn’t. The IL system is 4X that, for 16 hours of training across 2 days. Oh, and then you shoot 30 rounds and if you can but 20 of them in a man size target at 7 yds you pass.
But the crazy part is that when you look at the list of where you can’t carry, it is everywhere. Seriously. Since it includes “real property and parking areas” of all banned locations, pretty much the whole state is off limits.
Read the law below and tell me if it’s not insane.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/fulltext.asp?DocName=043000660K65
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